The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-17
MORE WATER TROUBLE.
The Tenth Warders Kick Against
the Diversion of Their Stream.

| On Monday evening a meeting o
settlers in the Tenth Ward was held il
the Tenth Ward meeting house. VIM
Fuller was chosen chairman and Jas
L. Strong secretary. The chair pre-
sented the call for the meeting, which
was for the purpose of protesting
against the diversion of the waters o
Emigration Creek from the proper
channel, viz: The Tenth Ward Ditch
to the Twentieth and Twenty frs
Wards, and to the farms on the bench
It was explained that the settlers in
the Tenth Ward had ,acquiIei prior
right to building dams and making
bitches for said stream to flow to their
property during the year 1848, and had
spent thousands of dollars since on the
said dams and ditch; and having
formally protested to the City Council
against the unjust and unlawful tax
ing away of their water, other and
more potent steps seemed now neceS-
sary.
An invitation was given to those
present to show what work they had
done for the water, and when they did
it.
Mr.. Rodney lillian said he had ex-
pended labor and means on the ditch
for nearly thirty years, and considered
his title in The same to be good.
Mr.. Charles Crabtree worked for
three months conseruti lively on the
ditch, with other Sc { ers,.. the year
1850, and was not disposed 10 let later
settlers dispossess him of his rights.
Mr.. James Paul had worked and ex-
pended means on Emigration ditch
ever since the year 1861.
Mr.. William Grimsdell, ST., has paid
for his water right on his premises, and
owned and used and claimed it for
twenty years.
Mr.. ]. Freeman suggested that by
Calming water rights in this manner
the people might clash with the powers
granted to the City Council by the
Legislature.
Mr.. James T. Strong, with other
members of the Strong family, had
worked on the dam and ditch to bring
the waters of Emigration to their land
ever since 1919. and had expended hun
dreds of dollars on the same, and to-
day his trees are dying for want of
water, which is being conveyed to lots
taken up twenty years after he had OBJ
tanned prior right; he was in favor of
suffering no longer.
Mr.. VIM. Taylor had also paid for
his water right twenty years ago, and
would be one among the other settlers
in helping to keep what he had pur-
chased.
Mr.. VIM. Griffin said he had a right
to water for his lot for twenty years,
but since the City Council had taken
the water to other parts of the city,
his lot had suffered, and he thought
During this summer he
could not get drop of water on his
orchard, except what came from the
clouds.
Jos. s. Darke, F. z. Poll, n. Free
man, h. Meyerhofe- and others spoke
in favor of defending their rights to the
water.
Mr.. j. c. Woods had been on COM
mittees to protest to the City Council
against the diversion of the water from
Emigration Greek, but as said protests
we're generally buried in the waste
basket, he suggested that some other
action be taken and was of the opinion
that no permanent remedy would be
effected until the courts had acted upon
the matter.
A committee on finance was ap-
pointed consisting of ]. s. Darke, J. G.
Woods, William Taylor, H. Barnes and
William Griffin, and $50 were sub
scribed at the meeting to commence
With.
Mr.. Homer Duncan suggested that as
several of the original workers on the
hitch and dam made to bring the waters
nto the loss we're now living in the ward,
hey take legal steps to help them main
ain the rights so acquired.
A committee to ascertain the title of
he settlers to primary and secondary
lights to the water was appointed, con-
listing of Adam Speirs. Charles Grab |
rec, James E. Malin, Robert Piper and |
:. R. Poll.
The meeting adjourned to meet at the |
all of the chairman, when the COM !
nittee are prepared to report. Some
Iecisive steps will be taken, as the peo-
lie there assembled eVinced determi-
ation to protect their property from
on account of the water owned
y them being taken to lands which |
ad no legal claim on it.
The secretary was instructed to fur
ish the minutes of the meeting TO the
)eseret NelCS and SALT LAKE HERALD for
ublication.
JAMES T. STRONG,